Let the countdown begin.......50 days to go!
We have 50 days until X-mas...I know that seems like a lot but it is going to fly by! This is my FAVORITE time of year, 1st Halloween, then Thanksgiving and Christmas! Its all about being with family and good friends and being thankful for all the amazing things that have happened over the last year...time to reflect back and try to see how we can do certain things maybe a little better in the New Year! I went the other night with my sister-in-law and knocked out 90% of my Christmas shopping....a few yrs. ago when times were really tough, I couldn't fathom the thought of how I was going to come up with the money for a special and good x-mas for my kids? My mom suggested that I do Layaway, she said when we were kids that is the only way she could get big shopping like school shopping and Christmas done!! I thought it was a great idea, unfortunately there are very few stores that offer Layaway these days...but there is 1 that always offers it! K-mart, so I drove out and with the ages of my kids, I can get everything that I would need for them there!

So I decided to do it again this year, you get everything you need and choose an 8wk. or 12 wk. payment plan. Every 2 weeks you make a payment and on your last payment its all yours, it helps my wallet to not have to pay 1 big chunk of $$! I feel very relieved about Christmas right now!

In a few weeks I will be saying goodbye to my 20's and welcoming my 30's....it's kind of crazy that I am going to be in my 30's, but it actually doesn't bother me! I have a great life and great family, and actually I think life is getting better the older I get! We can talk about when I am getting ready to turn 40 and maybe it will bother me then...Haha

McKenzie is in kindergarten this year and doing great, not that ever had any doubt... she loves school and is a very studious student. Ever since she was in Pre-school we did our "homework books" Big learning books I would buy from Target, so she was already use to sitting down and doing her homework. She is a smart little cookie, and loves to ask Q's and just take it all in and learn everything she can! I will say that our 1 challenge so far has been getting up in the morning....Kenzie is definitely my child in the sleep department, we are not morning people! So I am a constant phsyco trying to get everyone to get moving and get out the door in the morning to not be late! But we are working on getting better at it!


She is also super into gymnastics these days, she is on a performance squad and it is something that is really excelling at. She is sort of a perfectionist and loves to practice....my kids have the perfect body type for the sport they keep telling me, and her coach says she has no problem keeping up with the girls in her class that are 7 and 8yr. olds! Overall McKenzie is doing awesome!


Haylee is in Pre-school this year and loving it, she is making some of her own friends(outside of kenzies friends). Her teacher says she is great and is such a social butterfly, Yep that my girl she never stops moving or talking! She goes 2 times per week and is in in a little church pre-school,so unlike Kenzie she is learning about GOD and comes home singing the cutest little songs about how GOD loves her!
She also does gymnastics and was actually just asked to join the little kid performance squad! She also excels at it, she can do more than some of the older kids...so Adam and I have decided that we are now focusing on the 2020 Olympics..Hahahaha!

We also just got done with Halloween, and we had a great time trick-r-treating! McKenzie was a bunny this year, Haylee was Ariel (my mom made her costume since every Ariel I found was too big for my peanut! I was a Pink Lady from Grease and Adam was....well we are not really sure but at least he dressed up as some sort of White Trash freak! Heather was Hello Kitty, Dan a basketball player, my mom was a fairy god mother and Ally was Tinkerbell! We also went to see Uncle Marky at the Miramar Airshow...do his thing with the Blue Angels...The girls think he is soooo cool, like a celibrity at the Airshows! Adam and myself are doing good, the same....we both work a lot and are very busy! But very blessed and we know what our priorities are...our teamwork gets through our days! Just lots of LOVE!!